Film Music

treesparrow

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Many film scores add so much to certain films that without them they perhaps would be nowhere as interesting. Some maybe, even are worth listening to on their own. My favourites include -

Once upon a time in the west - operatic-like film score by Ennio Morricone

Lawrence of Arabia - score by Maurice Jarre

Bladerunner - music by Vangelis

Local Hero - music by Mark Knopfler

Some already existing popular hit songs seem to mesh well with some films - that song from Donnie Darko for instance (originally by Wet Wet Wet?) and the songs by Simon and Garfunkel in the film The Graduate.

I'm sure there's lots of others but these are the ones which spring readily to mind (or at least my mind).
 
Some film musics I like very much:

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arch - John Williams
Dances with wolves - John Barry
The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein
High Noon - Dimitri Tiomkin
Ben Hur - Miklos Rozsa
The Sand Pebbles - Jerry Goldsmith
Casablanca - Max Steiner
North by Northwest - Bernard Herrmann (one of my favored film music composers; many Hitchock's movies have his music)

These are rather old movies, but I am not very young too :)
 
Much of the score for Once Upon A Time In The West was recorded prior to filming. Then the scenes were shot to match the music. Think of the shot when Claudia Cardinale arrives in town and the camera rises over the train station to give a view on the town. Or the final shoot-out when Bronson and Fonda are circling each other.

Love that movie! It is so much fun!
 
treesparrow said:
Some already existing popular hit songs seem to mesh well with some films - that song from Donnie Darko for instance (originally by Wet Wet Wet?)

If you're thinking of the song Mad World from Donnie Darko, that song was originally sung by Tears For Fears but for the movie had a slight re-interpretation by Gary Jules. I do think Donnie Darko has a great soundtrack that accompanies the film. The movie is set in the mid 80s so they really had to use music from that time. But I think in that movie it was done excellently.

Other soundtracks/scores that I enjoyed would be Wizard of Oz, Jaws, Taxi Driver, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, American Beauty, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and Trainspotting.
 
One of my favourites is Howard Shore's Lord of the Ring renditions. John William's Star Wars, is another. :)
 
Vulcan59 said:
One of my favourites is Howard Shore's Lord of the Ring renditions.

+1
At the top of my head, I'm adding Coppola's Dracula (Wojciech Kilar), The Last of the Mohicans (Trevor Jones/Randy Edelman), Baraka, and Samsara.
 
Some others -

The third man - music by Anton Karas

2001 - A space odyssey (minus HAL singing "Daisy Daisy give me your answer do" ) :D
 
Soundtracks I have sought out.

Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass
Buena Vista Social Club
Grosse Point Blank- Various
Hard Day's Night-Beatles
Kill Bill- Various
Local Hero- Mark Knopfler
Southern Comfort (really obscure B grade film which had some lovely subtle slide and Cajun music by Ry Cooder)
Dingo- Miles Davis

Does Pink Floyd's The Wall count? I saw the movie before I bought the album!
 
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